2. Assessment: Did CPC rule benefit society?

Activity 1 - Presentation Time!

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Watch - Watch this YouTube video which gives tips on how to create an awesome slide presentation.
Read - Read these twenty tips for designing more professional looking Google Slide presentations.
Review - Examine this rubric for how you will be reviewed.
Present - You now have 5-8 mins to present your findings to the class. As you listen, complete this worksheet.
Discuss - What were the most significant changes to society instigated by Mao and the CPC?

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Mind-Map - Create a concept-map using Padlet, Mindmup or any other similar mind-mapping tool (or create a sketchnote by hand!) to unpack and brainstorm the statement of inquiry for this unit: "The redistribution of power in society can lead to significant changes in the roles, status and identities of different social groups".
Discuss - With a partner, discuss how this statement of inquiry could be applied to Mao’s China between 1949-1976. Do any historical events from the time show how the statement of inquiry is true? Or is it inaccurate?

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Concepts - Make sure you include the following concepts for this unit as sub-headings for your mind-map:
1. Key Concept - Significance
2. Related Concepts - Identity
3. Global Context - Identities and Relationships
Define - For each concept/global context, try to research and formulate your own definitions.
Link - Link connected concepts/ideas with arrows.
Discuss - As a class, discuss how each of the concepts could be related to events you have studied in this unit.

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Now fill in your mind-map with key historical information and facts about the main events of the unit. Be sure to include:

Women - Mao's views, patriarchal society, New Marriage Law 1950, impact of collectivisation on women's lives, famous political women, inequality within the CPC, impact of famine and cultural revolution on women, All China Women's Federation, double burden.
Minorities - 56 ethnic minorities, 1954 Constitution - five autonomous regions - Tibet, Xinjiang, Ningxia, Guangxi, Inner Mongolia, armed revolts, Tibetan Uprising 1959.
Religion - Mao's views, Campaign against religion, 1954 Religious Affairs Bureau, The Three Selfs, foreign priests expelled, property seized, Policy for Buddhism, Confucianism, Daoism, Ancestor Worship, Islam, Christianity. Traditional customs, Patriotic Churches, PRC vs. Vatican, Four Olds, Confucius and Co, Religion and separatism fears
Arts and Culture - Revolutionary culture, bourgeois individualism condemned, campaign against Hu Feng, Wu Han Affair, proletarian literature and art, role of Jiang Qing, the impact of the cultural revolution.
Healthcare - Patriotic Health Movements, doctors as suspected intellectuals, cultural revolution, barefoot doctors, eradication of endemic diseases.
Education - Literacy drives, language reform, expansion in primary education, university policies, elitism within school system, Mao's attitude towards intellectuals, impact of cultural revolution, rustication of students.

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Evaluate - Use this significance review sheet to evaluate the historical significance of the social policy that your group examined. What score?
Debate - What was the most significant social policy introduced by Mao and the CPC? Use your completed review sheet to discuss and debate.
Essay Plan - Try practicing for your end of unit review by essay planning previous questions on this topic. Use this essay mark-scheme to help:
1. Evaluate the impact of domestic policies on social developments in the People's Republic of China under Mao Zedong - May 2019
2. Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of Mao's social policies - Nov 2017
3. "By 1961 the Chinese people's hopes for a more prosperous and a fairer China had not been realised." To what extent do you agree with this statement? - Nov 2016
4. To what extent did Mao Zedong (Mao Tse-tung) achieve his vision of a socialist state in China by 1961? - May 2014
5. Evaluate the successes and failures of Mao Zedong (Mao Tse-tung) and the Communist Party in their social and economic policies between 1949 and 1961 - Nov 2013
6. How successful were Mao Zedong (Mao Tse-tung) and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in creating a socialist state in the period 1949 to 1961? - Nov 2011